Posted on 11/06/2017 7:36:04 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
The man responsible for attacking Sen. Rand Paul Friday afternoon was an avowed liberal who frequently fought with his neighbors about politics, according to a report Sunday from The Washington Post.
Local citizens say Rene Boucher, the 59-year-old man who assaulted Paul, was a socialist who frequently fought with neighbors about health care policies and other liberal issues. Boucher and Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, are on the opposite end of the political spectrum, they told reporters.
Jeff Jones, a registered nurse who worked with Boucher at the Bowling Green Medical Center, described Paul’s attacker’s politics as “liberal.”
“He was active on social media and said some negative things about the Republican agenda,” Jones said of Boucher, a Bowling Green, Ky., citizen who lives in the same gated community as Paul. “I think it was unfortunate that they lived so close together.”
Boucher is a divorced socialist who is “pretty much the opposite of Rand Paul in every way,” Jim Bullington, a former member of the city commission who knows both men well, told reporters Sunday.
A Facebook account Boucher maintained before the attack contains numerous anti-Republican postings.
Boucher wrote “May Robert Mueller fry Trump’s gonads” in a May post referencing the former FBI director’s investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian government.
Paul is an ophthalmologist who has practiced in Bowling Green since moving there with his wife in the early 1990s. Boucher, meanwhile, is an anesthesiologist and the inventor of the Therm-a-Vest, a vest designed to help with back pain.
Paul had staff privileges at the hospital where Boucher worked, so Paul and Boucher “must have worked together at some point,” David Ciochetty, a doctor with Interventional Pain Specialists in Bowling Green, told reporters.
Paul’s injuries were far worse than initially reported. He has lung contusions, or bruises, caused by the broken ribs, Doug Stafford, Paul’s chief of staff, said in a statement Sunday. The type of fractures the senator sustained can cause other significant medical problems, including internal bleeding and pneumonia.
“This type of injury is caused by high velocity severe force. It is not clear exactly how soon he will return to work, as the pain is considerable as is the difficulty in getting around, including flying,” Stafford said.
Blindsided while mowing his lawn. How exactly is this only a 4th degree misdemeanor assault charge? If the ideological roles were reversed and a guy in a MAGA hat assaulted and severely injured a prominent Dem politician, the charge would undoubtedly be 1st or 2nd degree felony assault.
Another practitioner of the religion of hate-—SOCIALISM.
Bankrupt the liberal lowlife with legal fees, strip him of his medical license and then throw him in jail with Bubba.
I know this story has been overshadowed by the church shooting. But, this is as serious as the Steve Scalise shooting, in that, a member of Congress, a Republican, is fighting major injuries, which could have been fatal.
An early story said he invented some heatable, rice-filled warming pad and made lots on it - I guess a lot of these “socialists” also enjoy a bit of Capitalism....if the early story was correct.
Boucher is a man whose most basic and true socialist beliefs caused his violent assault on Senator Paul.
Socialism is nihilism.
Pour Sen Paul. Two assassination attempts this year. Horrible. Praying for his swift recovery. He must be in a lot of pain. Whatever you want to say about his politics, he has been on the side of freedom mostly. We do need him against the deep state whores on both sides of the aisle.
Too much violence is being wished for, promoted, and gotten away with on the left. This guy needs an assassination attempt charge and to be locked away for a good deal of t8me.
Poor
Would anyone want to be treated by a medical professional with this kind of uncontrolled rage and poor judgment?
My thoughts are along the same lines as yours. This and the Baseball Practice attempted massacre seem to be of the same ilk. It seems like well-orchestrated attempts to assassinate conservative leaders. We need to know who’s behind these assassination attempts.
Hell no!
Boucher's now eating his own words. His are in the frying pan. Stupid is a stupid does.
This was a vicious attack, I wonder if they can upgrade the charges?
Of course a liberal nut did it.
A Bernie Bro? How about that!
In leftist terms, this is a hate crime. Where are the federal charges?
I suppose irony is lost on the likes of Boucher, a socialist living in a gated community...
Absolutely.
“which could have been fatal.”
With the possibility of pneumonia, it could still be fatal.
Not sure what the doctor hoped to accomplished by tackling him. It appears the doctor has anger management issues, to say the least, that need to be treated.
Behind bars. For a long time.
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